WP: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused CIA officials Thursday of misleading her in 2002 on the use of "enhanced interrogation techniques" such as waterboarding, which simulates drowning and has been described by critics as torture. Pelosi reiterated an earlier claim that she was briefed on such techniques only once — in September of 2002 — and that she was told at the time that the techniques were not being used.
Going to be used is future tense; being used is in the present. So technically speaking, when someone told Pelosi that waterboarding was going to be used, that meant they weren't currently using it. However, it is intellectual dishonesty at its finest.
If she really opposed “torture” her ability to oppose it has the most potential before the techniques are used. If your goal is to prevent something, you would want to know before it happens, and not to be made aware of it afterwards.
In reality, she had no idea in 2002 that “waterboarding” would be the hot topic of the left in 2009. One might think that she should rationally say that at the time, considering the circumstances, and the limitations of the techniques imposed, she thought the application of the techniques were okay. However, her base isn't rational! So, little wonder she lies.
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